Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai -2 Dobara Review

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara! Movie Review

This disappointing sequel to 2010’s Ajay Devgan-Emran Hashmi starrer is constructed around the premise of a love triangle…the laziest love triangle you could possibly imagine. It doesn’t help that writer Rajat Arora, as if to compensate for the flimsy plot, goes into overkill mode with wise-ass dialogues. Imran Khan as Aslam, ostensibly the hero of this film, appears ill at ease rolling those corny lines off his tongue. Sonakshi Sinha’s Jasmine has got to be the most pea-brained woman you’ve ever met.I’m going with one-and-a-half out of five. Call me cynical, call me a spoilt-sport, but don’t call me if they decide to make Once Upon A Time in Mumbai 3!

Like I pointed out earlier, while the prequel held the spectators by its ears and eyes, ONCE UPON AY TIME IN MUMBAI DOBAARA! suffers because the grip is absent from the very start itself . Also, the villain [Mahesh Manjrekar] is just not authoritative or commanding enough here. On the whole, ONCE UPON AY TIME IN MUMBAI DOBAARA! has a powerful second half and the drama/conflict helps the film regain ground, after a shaky first hour. However, the fact cannot be denied that ONCE UPON AY TIME IN MUMBAI DOBAARA! pales in comparison to its prequel.

More than anything else in Milan Luthria’s sequel, Akshay towers. He chews up the scenery with his dangerous frown, flaring nostrils, dark glasses, flicked cigarettes and thunderous dialogue. Yes, the film is over-wrought, melodramatic and designed as pulp fiction. But it’s also fun. Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! had me cheering for the bad guy. Which, at least in the movies, is never a bad thing. I’m going with three stars. One star is for Akshay Kumar who makes a stellar killer.

Visit Site for moreRatings:3.5/5Review By:Madhureeta MukherjeeSite:Times Of India (TOI)

In OUATIMD, a love triangle forms the bloodline of the story, replete with 'donnisms', molls with maal and an overkill of 'loaded' dialogues pe dialogues.This is a love story of a gangsta, it does not reopen dons' crime diaries. The first part is more engaging; thereon, the sluggish pace lacks the same dum. The heavy-duty dialogues (Rajat Aroraa) punch drama in the story, though at times too overbearing.

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On the whole, Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara! is an average film with dialogues and performances as its big plus points and the burden of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and limited action as it minus points. The holidays (Independence day, Raksha Bandhan) will help boost its collections but the haphazard release (it opened in limited/small-capacity auditoria of multiplexes, that too, in very limited number of shows on Thursday) will reduce its box-office takings. Business in Muslim centres will be better. Considering all the pros and cons, it will barely be able to recover its heavy cost.

Visit Site for more Ratings:2.5/5Review By:Karan AnshumanSite:Mumbai Mirror

The crux, the triangle, is ridiculously simplistic and depends far too much on trusted aides and girlfriends not sharing any information about their personal lives, rendering the premise unreal. To sum up, Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara is a better crafted film than it's predecessor but unfortunately considerably shallower. It's style keeps you reasonably occupied but for a runtime of 160 minutes, it needed a lot more substance.

Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! falls well short of being quite as engaging as the film that it is a sequel to.For all its flaws, Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! isn’t only for Akshay Kumar fans. This Independence Day weekend, feel free to catch this gangster drama that masquerades as a violent love story.

OUATIMD’s crowning glory is Akshay Kumar who goes all the way with his “negative” act in one of his career-best performances. Fans of the original will be disappointed because they will expect some serious gangster action, while this is an out-and-out love story.Love stories are the flavour of the season (Aashiqui, Ranjhanaa and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani) and here's another one to make you go ah!

Things have gotten far worse this time around, with characters talking exclusively in the sort of aphoristic couplets found on auto-rickshaw stickers. Akshay Kumar makes some of those lines work, but the rest are beyond redemption.For now, a much more relevant question would be just what purpose Imran Khan serves in a movie like TWAT, but so entertaining is Kumar's swagger and so feebly does Khan deliver his lines that even if Khan's character were completely excised, it wouldn't hurt the movie an ounce.

Visit Site for moreRatings:1.5/5Review By:Shubhra GuptaSite:IndianExpress

I
missed Ajay Devgn and Emran Hashmi of the original, who made credible
'bhais', and carried off those rhyming dialogues. Akshay Kumar lacks
menace and quickens only when those glasses are off his face, which
doesn't happen too often in the film . After all the shoot-outs and
bang-bangs are over, you are left with a film which leaves you with so
little new that you wonder if there's any juice left in this style of
retro gangsta flick. Or are we heading for a
third-time-in-Mumbai-Tibara?

What’s Good: It’s yet again a Once Upon… story where every line is a punch line and retro look is fantastic with its aroma of nostalgia! What’s Bad: There’s melodrama, overdrama and too much drama. Watch or Not?: Milan Luthria’s OUATIMD lacks the effervescence and naturalness of its prequel. The vibrancy of the script is diluted with hard-to-believe romance, minimal story, the film falters due to lack of action and the calamity that OUATIM reflected in abundance. This one isn’t really a dull bore but fail to spark off the enigma of the former edition! Crime thrillers and love dramas shouldn’t be mingled, it results in an insipid broth.

But the hit formula that they had devised seems to have gone awry this time around. ‘Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbaai Dobaara’ is nothing but an out and out Akshay Kumar film with nothing more to offer. Director Milan Luthria opts for a very conventional treatment to this film. Nonetheless, OUATIMD is a tale of a don who wishes to win over the love of his life! Watch it only for Akshay Kumar. Two for this one.

Featuring an utterly awful screenplay and more overbearing pulpy dialogues than you can shake a fist at, the unfortunately named and spelled Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara is a plodding and tiresome experience. Our hero villain Akki aka Shoaib Khan in OUATIMD is a lumbering mess and the film has no heart, No amount of Mumbaiyya gangsta razzle dazzle can mask the fact that OUATIMD is a wearisome and uninteresting

Apart from Akshay Kumar's dashing looks and performance Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara has nothing to boost on its own as a sequel.. it's an uninspired, boring and highly disappointing sequel you'll ever see. Or not see, if you're lucky. If you love the first film, seriously, do not see this one. You'll ruin two movies at once.

Akshay Kumar is the backbone of this movie he is phenomenal in the movie, Imran khan,Sonakshi can't act ,If you Are A Big fan of akshay Kumar like me than you will watch Ouatimd whether it's A good movie or bad movie

ONCE UPON Ay TIME IN MUMBAAI DOBAARA: Stay away from this ‘all talk-no action’ bogus entertainer! [1.5/5]

Glamorizing evil and bad is not a new recipe to success in Bollywood. It has done wonders in past for superstars like Shah Rukh Khan & Sanjay Dutt but gambling totally on the same doesn’t solve the purpose unless you have a solid story line, fool-proof fail-safe screenplay and if not mightier than the bad, sure equally influential character of good merits who can rise from the downhill and surprise you in the final combat of good & bad […the best example I could remember is Aamir & Sharat Saxena’s final face-off in Ghulam], sadly and in the most disappointing way, Milan Lutharia’s ONCE UPON Ay TIME IN MUMBAAI DOBAARA lacks all except the style quotient.

First and foremost, where the prequel to same […Ajay Devgn-Emran Hashmi starrer OUATIM] was partly based on true incidents, taking cues from life & times of Haji Mustan and the momentous rise of Dawood on the map of Mumbai underworld, this sequel slips off conveniently into a fictional love-triangle. Akshaye Kumar gets into the shoes of Shoaib [played earlier by Emraan Hashmi] to create the most-stylish, charming yet menace bad guy that manages to take away all the claps & whistles with his presence on screen. He is the uncrowned man behind all the illegal businesses including cricket match-fixing. He gets what he wants by all means, be it the lady sitting on his next in the stadium. He literally can buy you an award that you aren’t even nominated for. Sonakshi Sinha plays a starlet […on the similar lines of yesteryear’s sex-siren Mandakini] who dreams to achieve big but not at the cost of everything. Imran Khan is a side-kick to Shoaib who unlike his mentor-cum-idol-cum-boss, thinks from heart rather than going with decisions that mind suggests. Rest you can guess, as it is a Bollywood love-triangle!

Of the crew, Rajat Aroraa- the man who penned the success-story of OUATIM and THE DIRTY PICTURE carries forward his trademark writing with punches possibly in every line. So, this 2 hour 40 min long power play of the good, the bad and the beauty is filled with cheesy one liners like ‘naam bata diya toh meri pehchaan bura maan jaayegi’ ‘itne saalon mein Mumbai badal gayi thi, kumkum se kimi kaatkar ho gayi thi’ ‘doodh mein jisne pehle nimbu nichoda, paneer uska’. Honestly, some really work. Most don’t. But that is not the one flaw that makes it an unbearable watch. Storyline that takes off with a power packed establishment of Shoaib’s character in the first half, looses its grip soon after introducing the love-angle and later when melodrama takes over the charge. Boredom is guaranteed in those precious minutes. Imran is sure a misfit as a tapori- mumbaiya. Sonakshi looks great in most but I would like to keep my lips sealed if asked about her performance.

There’s a scene where Imran teaches Sonakshi how to speak English and mistakenly he translates her intermediate [10+2] education as ‘Intercourse’, now if you find it a reason to chuckle or laugh, I suggest you go see some psychiatrist as soon as you finish it reading…and shockingly that sad joke goes on and one for like 3-4 scenes. To add up, I don’t why everyone including Sonali Bendre who makes an appearance in an insignificant- half baked subplot pronounces ‘Shoaib’ as ‘shoheb’. Sounds disgusting…really!

& for the makers and the director, I would like to suggest that, “agar aap aisi hi betuki bakwaas filmein banaate rahenge, audience ek na ek din jaroor bura maan jaayegi”! Overall, this sequel of high expectations sweats out to encash the success of the prequel but just finishes as an ‘all talk-no action’ bogus entertainer! Stay away!! [1.5/5]

Not agree... Gaurav. If you are giving it 1.5/5 & CE 2/5 means CE is better than OUATIMD !!!!! such a bad taste of movie you have. What is your measuring factors for you to rate a movie? CE is not having a single meaning ful dialogue... after watching it, if somebody asks that what was good in it? have no word to say.. coz its full of srk's overdose of overacting & his typical style of dialogue delivery & nothing else... while OUATIMD has good music, supperb dialogues, Acting much more which is clearly deserves atleast higher rating than CE...You are fail... totally disagree with your rating... Friends, plz stop following his reviews...

i have already stopped following his reviews long time before... GAURAV RAI HAS NO BRAIN AND MIND TO INTERPRETE FILMS....BUT UNFORTUNATELY HE WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE REVIEWS ON FILM WHICH ALL WE HAVE TO DIGEST.... :( :( :(

ohhk so now in this emraan hashmi i.e shohaib has now grown into a complete akshay kumarand he is the ultimate gangster he hires imraan khan i.e aslam when he is too young and grows to work for him..now what i felt awkward was aslam works for shohaib bhai for 12 years sonakshi being at aslams age and shohaib bhai and aslam both fall for sonakshi...it looks ok with the young upcoming gangster aslam but with akshay?? no one noticed hes too old for it. pairing and casting was yeah considerably ok. climax fails to impress: a hand to hand battle between akshay and imraan, in the end police shoots akshay in the mean time imraan gets all the beatings and is injured. and akshay is escorted for an escape by his men..akshay forces sonakshi to fall for him but imraan being the "wafadar" of akshay betrays him and doesnt back down and doesnt give up on sonakshi...thats what the film is all about.songs not impressive

whats good about the movie??1.background score2.onliner punch dialogues that are effectively delivered

i wished they continued with emraan hashmi for the character of Shohaib bhai...

in a way good entertainer though , its not bad.. i rate it 2.5/5worth watching...

i think akki did justice to his caracter as shoaib. he can't bring sona in mumbai express n try to gain the heart of imraan as in funny chennai express to fool his fans for entertainment, must be a bit realistic because we pay tickets ,at least to know a bit real lives or how lives r in other sides of world

All those who have lost money watching OUATIMD on Independence Day, Take this piece of Free Friendly advice.. Save your Weekend..Go watch Chennai Express.. Or if you understand English Subtitles, go watch The Conjuring..or Ship of Theseus..After watching Dobara..I am nauseated with all the dialog crap..I will go to Goa over the weekend..U can join me as well..

I felt the movie was quite interesting and better and different than some of the movies I have seen recently....the dialogues of the movie will keep u njoying the moments...and looks of Akshay is awesome....

Not agree... Gaurav. If you are giving it 1.5/5 & CE 2/5 means CE is better than OUATIMD !!!!! such a bad taste of movie you have. What is your measuring factors for you to rate a movie? CE is not having a single meaning ful dialogue... after watching it, if somebody asks that what was good in it? have no word to say.. coz its full of srk's overdose of overacting & his typical style of dialogue delivery & nothing else... while OUATIMD has good music, supperb dialogues, Acting much more which is clearly deserves atleast higher rating than CE...You are fail... totally disagree with your rating... Friends, plz stop following his reviews...

chennai express is the world hatest movie i ever saw.. u have to take a south person with u to understand the film... Ruk RUK khan i dont know y did he play the movie and m unhappy about y indians loved it..

Guys... all those who are comparing CE and OUATIMD, YOU ARE FOOLS... These superstars earn a lots of money... u guys spend ur hard earned money to watch movies, make these actors superstars and then fight with each other regarding who is the best... if u like a movie appreciate it, but for god's sake stop being childish... Both Akki and King Khan deserve lots of credit fr becoming superstars frm a comman man. they both r frm non film background and achieved a lot. they both should be respected fr wht they r. so guys stop fighting and cherish the success of a comman man. get inspired by these stars instead of fighting.

Was not expecting such a big joke atleast from Ekta Kapoor. Total time waste.Its moreover a Lover Triangle story, I don't understand why they mixed it with an underworld character. Its Full Bakwaas, no sense... But yes,, Chennai Express was an Bigger crap..

I am not a fan of SRK or Akshay.. But one thing you people have to agree SRK is better actor than Akshay.. Its depend upon skills of director of film how he gets acting done through actor.. Every actor is puppet handled by director..By the way Akshay is best but not better than SRK. SRK is Best actor..He is arrogant but king of acting.. watch his movies DDLJ, Swadesh,Devdas, Mohabaten ,Bajigar,Darr etc..